The New York Times continues trying to close the book on last week's disaster of a story with an editor's note. It begins:The Times’s coverage last week of Hillary Rodham Clinton’s use of a personal email account as secretary of state involved several corrections and changes that may have left readers with a confused picture. Yes, a confused picture. That's it.

Yet even the editor's note manages to be a little misleading, since a big part of the problem with the original story was...